Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1887-09-14
An Old Democrats Views.
Aida Valley, Sept. 9Th 1887


our institutions. No thoughtful pat.
riot can contemplate the rapid growth
of our foreign population and its prob
able misuse and abuse Of our hospital
ity without anxious forebodings. The
vote of our foreign born citizens has
already become factor in politics, to-
which the professiona, politician bows
with uncovered head Our gates have
too long been open TO the Oppressed
Of every land" Our generosity has
been abused by political advehturers
and agitators. We believe the time
has come to shut them against the
vicious, the criminal, the political adj
venturer, the 'agitator, the dynamiter
and oil who seek our shores for illegal
purposes. The VICIOUS and criminal
elements coming from Eurdpe'fnd
allies and sympathisers here ready to
assist them In their nefarious schemes,
by perjury and subornation of perjury
to hasten their becoming voters; This
Is countenanced and winked at by part.
isan judges, as INSCRIPTIONS as them.
selves, No intelligent man can doubt
that there now among us thousands OF
alien born citizeas who were armed
with the ballot the first year they after
their arrival in the United States. No
sane man doubts that an alien intiu.
ence stays the hands of the Sheriff of
Cook County, Illinois from executing
the men who murdered the Chicago
policemen with dynamite. That anar.
chists and incitors TO not haye large
following, dangerous to the peace OF
the community, to The preservation of
law and order and social restraint is
equally true. The Knights of Labor
were near being wrecked~by' the indis-
Greet moneyed contributions Of mem
bers of the Chicago Assembly, to aid
ia the defense of the murderer spies
and his associates in cfime. Master
Workman Powderly, on being ap.
prised of the fact, recognized the dan
ger to the order by sympathy, so
openly expressed, promptly ordered
the contributions resclnded
To repel the INVASION Of the vicious
and lawless classes THAT are pouring
Tito the country, to avert repetition
OF the Chicago outrage and recur.
ronce of acts of lawlessness by organ
lied bands, led by law.defying adven
turcrs are among the causes that called
into existence the Ahsfican party.
1t has come TO stay;lts Bannes is hurg
on the "outer WALL" bearing The in.
sGription, America for Americans, by
which IS meant all good citizens, who
afe'Americans at heart, no distinction of
race or place OF birth. whose first ale,
glance to the CO Institution and laws
of the United States, whose attachment
to our free institutions is greater than
party ties and party fealty; 10 all such
its doors are open, and to them an invi
tation to membership is extended, to
participate in its counsels and assist in
the correction of existing evils in the
administration Of public affairs, and
working reforms that cannot bs effect.
ed in'etther of',he old PARTIES. The
platform of the AMERICAN party is
broad aud comprehensive without
seltence'that i" unpa,riotic or that is
not endorsed by every lover of good
gdvernlhSht and the preservation of
republican institutions and social re.
straint. 3' ~
Not the least of the evils that con.
front the new party is the abuse of the
elective franchise. The protligate use
of money 70 influence elections would
hSve shocked the loose n6ti'ous ct Sir
Robert Walpole, that mdst venal of
ministers, whose political maxim was
that every man had his price. Corrup.
ton has been traced not merely to the
door bul Into the very reoesses of the
tethple,o That the merchantahle ele.
melt Of the elective franchise Is large.
ly'repfesehted IN the Democratic party
we Will not dispute; they look for
ward to an election as monthly wage
workers do to pay days. The Mapipu
latvts, both vendors aud vendees, eyade
the penatty Of bribery with the Gun.
Ming of necyomancers.
Old Line Democrat.